Metallic strip for fences



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' W. E.- MASSEY.

\ METALLIC STRIP FOR FENCES.

' No.261,619. Patented July-25, 1882.

N FiTifls Phote-Llflwgrlphur, Washington. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' WARD E. MASSEY, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA.

METALLIC ST RIP FOR FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,619, dated July 25, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARD E. MAssEY, of Dubnque city and county, in the State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Strips or Bands for Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being hadto theaccompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to fences the panels of which are metallic; and it consists of rolls or swage-blocks so formed that the edges of the strips or hands passing through them are corrugated or crimped to a sharp edge; and it consists, also, of the strips or hands thus corrugated or crimped.

The bands or strips, after being rolled to a suitable width and thickness, the greatest thickness being in the middle of its width or otherwise, as desired, are then passed through rolls or swagc-blocks so formed as to corru- Application filed April 10, 1882. (Model) greater strength, as the material is all in one piece, and the transverse corrugations will stiffen them. They can be more readily seen.

They will be fully as durable after being galvanized or painted, and, as they can be finished in the rolling-mills without remanufac- 1. A metallic fencing-strip corrugated or.

crimped on its edges, substantially as shown and described.

2. A pair of rolls or swage-blocks having the edges of their operating-surfaces corrugated, snbstantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto set my namein presence of two witnesses.

' WARD E. MASSEY. Witnesses:

FRANK (JoNRIoK, ISAAC GRIFFITH. 

